Looking Ahead: SCOTUS to Consider Abortion, Religious Education Cases







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Looking Ahead: SCOTUS to Consider Abortion, Religious Education Cases

By: Bruce Hausknecht


The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court recently released their last opinions of 2021. For people of faith, the results of the court's last term were a mixed bag involving three major cases – a somewhat encouraging religious freedom win for
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foster care agencies , a big win for privacy of
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donors to charitable organizations, and a disappointing rejection of florist
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Barronelle Stutzman's appeal for religious conscience.

Looking ahead to the court's next term, beginning on the traditional
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first Monday in October , the court has already accepted two cases of interest to Christians. The first concerns the constitutionality of Mississippi's
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15-week abortion ban . The second considers a Maine
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school tuition program that cannot be used for private religious education.

The Mississippi abortion case, titled
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, tests the high court's abortion jurisprudence going back to
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Roe v. Wade. The 1973 Roe decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, created artificial "trimester" rules for regulating abortion based on the concept of "viability," the time at which a preborn baby was generally thought to be able to survive, with medical help, outside the womb.

During the first trimester of pregnancy, the Roe majority ruled that almost no restrictions could be placed on a woman's "right" to choose abortion, other than minimum medical safeguards such as requiring a licensed physician perform the procedure. By the second trimester, the court said that a state may impose regulations on abortion that are reasonably related to maternal health. In the third trimester, where viability was considered to begin, a state could regulate abortions or prohibit them entirely, except where the life or health of the mother was at risk.

But advances in medical technology have lowered the age of viability.


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Woman with Down Syndrome and Others Fighting Against Discriminatory Abortions in the U.K.



By: Brittany Raymer




Newlywed Heidi Carter is on a mission to save preborn children from abortion for simply having the same condition that she has, Down syndrome. It's a practice that the 24-year-old woman considers "deeply offensive."

"It's downright discrimination, that's what it is," Carter said, who previously worked in a child's hair salon before the pandemic. "I will not tolerate it. That someone like me or James, my husband, could be aborted just before birth is just not on."

In another interview, she explained, "And the reason why it's important to me and James is because we are someone who has Down syndrome. And we want to say to the world that we have a good quality of life."

In the United Kingdom, it is legal to abort a child with Down syndrome at any point during the pregnancy. For most other pregnancies, abortion is just legal until the 24th week. According to the latest reports, about
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90% of children with the condition are aborted in the country.

Now, she and others are fighting in the courts to protect preborn babies from discriminatory abortions.






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Report Shows Hundreds of LGBT - Identified Characters in Children’s Cartoons



By: Jeff Johnston




What are your children's or grandchildren's favorite cartoons? D.C. Super Hero Girls? My Little Pony? Disney Duck Tales? She-Ra and the Princesses of Power? Star Wars Resistance? And how much do you know about the characters on those shows?

A new report from EntertainmentInsider, an online news and media outlet, shows the growing portrayal of LGBT-identified characters in children's cartoons like these.

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report lists 70 programs with a total of 259 characters with a variety of "sexual orientations" and "gender identities," including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, pansexual, polysexual and agender.

The shows are explicitly geared toward children and teens, as Insider analyzed standard television series that were "rated TV-PG and below and either programmed with children in mind or accessible to children if programmed for a preteen or teen audience."

Insider says the characters "bust the myth that kids can't handle inclusion." The outlet created a
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database with all the "LGBTQ and gender-minority characters in animated children's television" up through 2020. "We found a 222% increase from 2017 to 2019 in the number of LGBTQ characters confirmed in new series or by showrunners of series that had ended," the article stated.






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Trump Files Lawsuits Against
Big Tech Companies Over
Censorship




By: Zachary Mettler






Former President Donald Trump announced today that he has filed suit against three of the nation's largest tech companies over their repeated practice of censorship.


The former president filed three separate class action lawsuits against
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Facebook ,
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Twitter and Google's YouTube along with their respective CEOs.


All three lawsuits take the lead from a
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recent concurrence filed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who argued that big tech companies have such power and control over speech, that the government may be able to regulate them as "common carriers."


"The right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms," the justice wrote. "The extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment and the extent to which that power could lawfully be modified raise interesting and important questions."


The lawsuits advance a similar argument, contending that all three companies
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have engaged in "impermissible censorship … and willful participation in joint activity with federal actors."





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Louisiana Governor Signs Law Requiring Abortion Providers to Inform Women About Abortion Pill Reversal



By: Kennedy Unthank






A recent Louisiana law signed on July 2 requires abortion providers to inform women about the abortion pill reversal protocol, which is safe, effective and can save the lives of preborn babies by negating the effects of the drug.

The measure,
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HB 578 , relates specifically to chemically induced abortions. In this method, the mother is given two pills – mifepristone and misoprostol. The
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first drug blocks a hormone called progesterone which is vital to the continuation of pregnancy, especially in the early stages. The
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second drug induces uterine contractions, and then, an unnatural miscarriage.

With the law, upon administering the mifepristone, abortion providers would then be required to provide a disclosure statement attached in some way to the bag containing the misoprostol or on the prescription for it. This statement is required to read as follows:

"PLEASE READ BEFORE TAKING SECOND PILL. Research has indicated that the first pill provided, identified as mifepristone, is not always effective in ending a pregnancy. If after taking the first pill you regret your decision, please consult a physician or healthcare provider immediately to determine if there are options available to assist you in continuing your pregnancy."







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